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Monday, 16 October 2017

On the horizon

Gadget freaks, Eighties fans and game aficionados, mark Friday, 27 October on your calendar. That’s the day that:

The second Blue Planet series makes its debut two days later on Sunday, 29 October, and Egypt was among the filming locations. Presenter Sir David Attenborough warns in the run-up that world needs to cut down on the use of plastics by “tomorrow,” The Guardian notes. Attenborough says two things concerned him: the rising temperatures and plastic in the oceans. Click or tap here for the trailer if you missed it when we ran it last (runtime 1:00).

An IMF delegation is expected in Cairo on Wednesday, 25 October to conduct a second review of the state’s reform program. The delegation will be in town through 7 November, according to remarks over the weekend by Jihad Azour, director of the IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia Department.

Egypt’s industrial investment map will be finalized and made available at the end of the month, Industrial Development Authority Chairperson Ahmed Abdel Razek said. The map will include over 4,000 ready investment opportunities, he added, according to Al Masry Al Youm.

EFG Hermes will hold its 7th Annual London Conference on 6-9 November. The conference will see C-suite execs from top listed companies in MENA as well as frontier markets (among them Pakistan, Kenya, Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka) meet face-to-face with top global investors with mandates to invest in emerging and frontier markets. The event will take place at Emirates Arsenal Stadium in London.

The Investment Ministry’s investment map of some 600 projects will be ready by December, a source from the General Authority for Freezones and Investment tells Youm7. Projects under the map will be ready for investors to place bids on them in January, the sources added.

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